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Every year on March 14, math geeks around the world come together to celebrate the number Pi. Pi day is celebrated on March 14, because the date (3/14) is the same as the beginning of the number (3.14). The number Pi has over one trillion digits after it’s decimal point, and at BHS, there are many different ways students and staff have planned to celebrate it. “If I’m right, Pi Day is on March 14…
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Food is something we all have in common, but our relationships with it are very different. This month, The Hoofprint explores food from a variety of perspectives. From Peter Cassidy’s mom’s famous crappie recipie and a vegetarian
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Even though the snow isn’t melting, the anticipation for boys spring sports is heating up. Seniors are getting ready for their final year and are looking forward to see how their team will do. The track team has big hopes for this years season. “I think our boy’s team is going to be better than it has been in a while,” said Senior Tyler Olson. “If we win conference this year it will be the…
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In the spring, many people of the Christian faith practice Lent. Beginning on Ash Wednesday, they give up a commodity of their life (such as soda or junk food) and also don’t eat meat on Fridays for six weeks until Maundy Thursday. To accommodate students practicing Lent, BHS’s Food Service staff serves fish on Fridays. “We’ve always had some sort of fish served on Fridays during Lent. We usually only serve it on Fridays, so…
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On August 9, 2012, exchange students Meng-Hsien Lin and Raveerat Rojtavornpornsuk stepped off their plane into America. Lin, known as Violet to fellow BHS students, is from Taiwan. Rojtavornpornsuk, known as Eve to fellow BHS students, is from Thailand. Both girls will be here until June 15, 2013. “My favorite part about America is the freedom. Back home, we have a lot of parental and governmental control,” said Rojtavornpornsuk. “I don’t like the snow though,…
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We wear the mask that grins and lies, It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes This debt we pay to human guile; With torn and bleeding hearts we smile, And mouth with myriad subtleties Twenty students sit in a large circle, discussing human nature using a Paul Laurence poem entitled “We Wear the Mask.” The AVID students share their thoughts on why society hides their feelings. “Everyone knows there’s something wrong, but we play…
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With track season beginning in under a week, many seniors are preparing for their final track season in high school. “I’m trying to get a lot of vaulting and lifting in,” said senior pole vaulter Mitchell Valli. “I try to do both three times a week so I am ready to go.” This year will be a special one for these students. It will be the last time they get to wear the purple and…
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As you walk into the lobby of Emerson, you immediately feel like you’re on the cutting edge of technology. A security guard, gun strapped to his side, has been awaiting your arrival behind his desk. It all seems a bit far-fetched to see security like this on a leisure school field trip, but the students approach the desk with an avid smile regardless. After a few students relieve themselves after the hour bus ride, they…
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Behind new leadership and perspective with a new coach, the Buffalo Dance Team is back again and hoping they’re here to stay. For the past ten years the Bison Dance Team has been an on again, off again sport. The school has had trouble finding coaches and funding for the team. The last year Buffalo had a dance team was in 2010. This year they found they’re new coach, Kaitlin White. “I have been teaching dance…
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Starting just a few years ago, the social networking site Twitter has become very popular with the teenager community. Almost everybody and anybody has a twitter now, and it is becoming more popular than Facebook was when it first came out. Twitter is specifically about updating your status about what you’re doing, how you feel, uploading pictures, and of course ‘subtweeting’. Subtweeting is basically tweeting about someone or something, not tagging them in your tweet,…
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